{"id":12811,"date":"2014-01-07T05:43:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T12:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=12811"},"modified":"2025-12-05T08:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:09:07","slug":"chukar-on-a-bright-winter-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2014\/01\/07\/chukar-on-a-bright-winter-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Chukar On A Bright Winter Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ChukarChukar on a bright winter day<\/span><\/p>\n

The weather forecast for today isn’t as bright as it was on the day last January when I photographed this Chukar walking across a field of fresh snow\u00a0instead the forecast\u00a0for today is rather dreary.<\/p>\n

There won’t be any sparkles on the snow currently on the ground because; well, it doesn’t look like the sun will break through the clouds.<\/p>\n

The morning I photographed this Chukar was clear and finger-numbing cold as the Chukars were out and about foraging for any seeds they could find on Antelope Island State Park in the bright sunshine.<\/p>\n

I laughed quite often because the Chukars<\/span><\/a> would break through the thin crust that had formed overnight on the snow and would be chest deep in the white stuff.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a><\/span> to see more of my Chukar photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The weather forecast for today isn’t as bright as it was on the day last January when I photographed this Chukar walking across a field of fresh snow instead the forecast for today is rather dreary. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":165268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[511,27,442,1022,26],"tags":[4004,4146,4021,5007,445,4773,5008,11978,4050,4328,401,4236,373],"class_list":["post-12811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antelope-island-state-park","category-avian","category-chukars","category-davis-county-utah","category-utah","tag-adult","tag-alectoris-chukar","tag-bird-photography","tag-bright","tag-chukar","tag-chukars","tag-clear-skies","tag-desert-island","tag-snow","tag-snowy","tag-upland-game-birds","tag-walking","tag-winter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t